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Government Agencies Can Rely on Better Network Security as nPulse Technologies and NetApp Achieve Record Full Packet Capture Performance

NetApp Announces the Launch of Its U.S. Public Sector Cyber Alliance Program

Sunnyvale, Calif. - August 21,
2012. As large government agencies and commercial
organizations deploy ever-faster networks, one of the greatest
challenges they face is enabling their network and security
monitoring infrastructure to keep up with the network itself. A key
component of any monitoring infrastructure is full packet capture
and storage, which enables the enterprise to go back in time,
examine network performance or security incidents, and answer the
question, "What happened?"

NetApp and nPulse Technologies, the industry
leader in high-performance flow and packet capture, have teamed to
offer a packet capture solution that is setting new records for
speed of capture and scalability of storage.

Capturing data packets at the highest rates
of speed without dropping any of the packets is essential to
maintaining security across large, ultrafast networks. Many
enterprises today are stuck with monitoring solutions that are
"1-gigabit monitoring solutions in a 10-gigabit world." Legacy
packet capture solutions with high rates of packet loss undermine
the effectiveness of today's powerful cyber-security analysis
tools, producing instead the cyber equivalent of a corrupted
database. Cyber warriors today require "all the packets, all the
flows, all the time."

That's where nPulse Technologies comes in.
nPulse's Hammerhead Capture appliance captures data at the highest
rates of speed without data packet loss. A powerful storage
capability is a key component for large organizations, allowing
both network and cyber-security managers to know what's going
through the data gateways, recording that flow of information, and
enabling them to reconstruct everything taking place inside the
network-key components of the security needs of any agency or
enterprise. With the nPulse and NetApp® solution, government
and commercial enterprises can have confidence that they can
recognize and respond to any attack on their networks with
certainty.

The nPulse and NetApp solution addresses both
the bandwidth and content challenges facing large enterprises that
need to keep their networks protected while handling vast amounts
of data in real time. nPulse partnered with NetApp to exploit the
NetApp E-Series storage system after a customer asked nPulse for a
solution because other systems could not handle the required
storage capacity and data sharing needs. The E-Series is a
high-performance storage system designed to meet wide-ranging
requirements, including support for high-performance file systems,
bandwidth-intensive streaming applications, and
transaction-intensive workloads. In its initial set of tests of the
Hammerhead and E-Series systems, the nPulse and NetApp team
achieved a number of firsts, including:

Encrypting the packet and flow data as it is being stored at a
rate of 24 gigabits per second

Making that data available for analytics in the open standard
"pcap" format with the high performance required for exploiting the
data

"For companies and government agencies, this
open and high-speed capability enables their big data systems to
securely access large volumes of packet data," said Timothy
Sullivan, CEO of nPulse Technologies. "It captures all the packets
on the fastest networks and presents them in standard pcap format
to the sophisticated analytics required to stop exploits in their
tracks."

Mark Weber, president of NetApp's U.S. Public
Sector, also announced the launch of its U.S. Public Sector Cyber
Alliance Program. NetApp's Cyber Alliance Program is a
collaborative program designed to establish partnerships and
interoperability of cyber solutions based on NetApp storage,
virtualization, and big data technologies. The main goal of the
program is to develop capabilities that enable organizations to
better respond to and address the cyber threats they face.

"Our storage lies at the heart of many large
virtual environments, and we are proud to add the ability to defend
them from cyber attack or misuse," said Weber. "We are also pleased
to have nPulse as our Cyber Alliance Program inaugural member."

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